A MUM battling terminal cancer has been invited on a festive fun day to cherish her final family Christmas.

Stacie Rafton, 35, from Selby, is undergoing specialist chemotherapy treatment on her brain tumour in the hope it gives her enough time to celebrate the seasonal holiday with her husband Kenny, and two daughters Chloe, 14, and eight-year-old Sophie.

Winter Wonderland, at York’s Designer Outlet, has offered Mrs Rafton and her family a free day out to go ice skating and try out the fun fair.

Although Mrs Rafton is too unwell to ice skate, she says the day will be a perfect memory for her children.

She said: “It sounds really good and we love going there at Christmas time.

“It’s perfect.

“We usually go ice skating, but that’s out of the question because I’m too unsteady on my feet.

“The kids will go on the rides and we all put our Christmas jumpers on.

“We always have a really good time and it lets us get in the Christmas spirit.”

The Press reported last week the mum has to fundraise the equivalent of £4,400 a month for the private treatment, but has already reached £10,000 of her £15,000 goal online.

It is hoped £15,000 will pay for enough chemotherapy to give her a final Christmas, and the former carer says she is surprised at how generous people have been so far.

She added: “The fundraising is going amazing.

“It will cost £15,000 for six cycles and that would be all my treatment paid for, so if we get to that it would be amazing.

“We’ve got a coffee morning planned for Doncaster on Saturday and we will be in York and Selby with buckets on December 2.

“I never wanted to do this originally because I didn’t think much of myself and didn’t think I would get this support, but it is overwhelming.

“The community has come together to help.”

Mrs Rafton believes her troubles began when she was a 15-year-old.

Doctors said her headaches were due to exam stress and the tumour went undiagnosed until January 2015 when she suffered a seizure.

A tumour was discovered and surgery followed six weeks later, but the tumour was too deep in the brain to be fully removed.

After originally being told the tumour was benign, Mrs Rafton was diagnosed with Stage Three cancer and began radiotherapy.

However, this did not work and Mrs Rafton has been told she may not survive to see Christmas unless she has the private chemotherapy.

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